Christopher D. Green wrote:
American national mythology holds that the United States was
"originally" populated mostly by immigrants from Great Britain. But
historians often point out that the plurality language at the time of
the Revolution was actually German. It turns out that Americans are
*still* mostly German. Here's a map of the entire nation giving the
largest ethnic ancestry in each county. The pale blue is German.
http://tinyurl.com/clm8z
Fascinating stuff! Note also the small map at the top of the image,
which does the same thing state by state. Fully 23(!) states have German
as the largest ethnic ancestry. (And I suspect there would be more if
the ancestry of the "Americans" in WV, KY, AR, and TN.)
(Tip o' the hat to http://www.electoral-vote.com/ for alerting me to
this map.)
Chris
You may be right, Chris. My grade-school history was that many
residents of PA (a very German area) followed the Appalachian
mountains to the south.
Notice the one tiny bit of purple in NW North Carolina
identifying itself as English. That area is the home of the
Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, which a friend from
Edinburgh identified as being more Scottish than Scotland.
Excuse me while I warm up my Lochaber Trump.
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Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Professor
Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
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